Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the No. 17 EcoBoost Ford Fusion, will start 14th in tomorrow’s Sylvania 300 and is coming off consecutive Top-20 finishes at Richmond (16th) and Chicagoland (18th). He spoke about his team’s improved performance and goals for the final nine races of the season between practice sessions at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Posting the fastest lap of Friday’s time trials late in the final round of knockout qualifying at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Carl Edwards knockedKevin Harvick off the pole for Sunday’s Sylvania 300, the second race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
Kevin Harvick ran a fast lap of 27.631 seconds, 137.845 mph in his No. 4 Ditech Chevrolet SS around the 1.58-mile oval, to earn the runner-up starting position for Sunday’s Sylvania 300 NASCAR Sprint Cup (NSCS) race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS). It marks the 20th top-10 start of the 2015 season for the defending NSCS champion, and his 12thin 30 races at the track known as the ‘Magic Mile’.
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 DITECH CHEVROLET SS – QUALIFIED 2ND - YOU KNOW YOU NEED A WIN. HOW DO YOU GET TO VICTORY LANE ON SUNDAY? “Well, we all need wins. I think obviously the situation that we’re in with our Ditech/Budweiser/Jimmy John’s team is that a win would make it a lot easier and less nerve-wracking....."
CARL EDWARDS, No. 19 Sport Clips Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 1st - How was your qualifying effort? “The car was super-fast in practice and I can’t thank Sport Clips enough for coming on board to be on the car here and in Kansas – two really big races for me."
GREG BIFFLE – No. 16 Kleen Performance Products Ford Fusion -- “We’re pretty disappointed with that. We qualified up front the last race here and this morning our car was really fast, but really tight from the center off of four. We’re great everywhere, but right there and that last lap I had to lift on the gas. I was gonna hit the wall coming off of four and that cost us that one position to get in. It looks like our teammates picked up speed. I think we have decent cars here for this weekend, but it will be a challenge coming from 25th.”
Four-time and reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon will join the Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates driver lineup for the Petit Le Mans endurance sports car race on Oct. 3 at Road Atlanta.
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER CHEVROLET SS, met with members of the media and discussed becoming the ‘Iron Man’, his memories from New Hampshire Motor Speedway over the years, his thoughts on the incident last week between Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick and many other topics.
RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 31 CATERPILLAR CHEVROLET SS met with media and discussed safety at restrictor-plate tracks, the confidence of his team after first race of the Chase, his approach to restarts at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and more.
The intensity continues to build during NHRA’s 75th anniversary season at the 37th annual Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals, which takes place July 24-26 at Pacific Raceways.
NASCAR Cup Series drivers share their expectations for the inaugural Window World 450, the first 450-lap Cup Series race in North Wilkesboro Speedway history
Max Stallone – driving for Wheels America Racing in the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by Michelin with support from PT Autosport – heads to another new racetrack this week: Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
